The Top 30 WordPress Plugins of 2017

Your online success greatly depends on parameters, like incoming traffic, SEO, relevance, efficiency, data security and so on. Your WordPress website needs to stay competitive, and this can be achieved only if you’re constantly upgrading it with the latest, best plugins compatible with it. To be on top of the game on a market crowded with opponents, make sure to stay up to date using the best WordPress plugins. View below handpicked 2017 high scoring WP plugins, ordered based on your website requirements.

Plugins to enhance website performance

Jetpack

The free Jetpack plugin was conceived by the WordPress team itself, to cater simultaneously to aspects like, performance, security, and visitors number and engagement, design and so much more. It can promote content automatically, allow and manage comments from social media and can make your site more visible to search engines. Get access to a total of 30 modules.

W3 Total Cache

Users never like waiting for a site to load, especially if it’s a recurrent visit. With WordPress caching, the data needed to load your website is temporarily stored so it can be quickly accessed by a returning visitor loading your page. If your website isn’t performing too well in terms of speed, this plugin is the best at improving it instantly.

WP Rocket

It is also a plugin for speed improvement and decreases page loading time instantly through its complete caching action and file compression.

Content Aware Sidebars

It replaces the WP sidebar with contextual sidebars for each essential feature, letting you cater to SEO, manage subscriptions, design contact forms and improve an overall user experience.

Optimize like a pro: Top SEO plugins

The SEO Framework

Optimize each post using the SEO bar created by this intuitive and easy-to-use plugin. It can even generate everything you need by its own: optimizes titles, URLs, descriptions, etc.

Yoast SEO

Not sure how to use keywords on your site and its meta information? Failing to keep track of all keyword-related aspects? This will get you the relevant information for each post, as well as tailored advice to make the needed improvements. Yoast SEO is free and helps you select and use keywords appropriately. It also creates great looking previews, optimizes images and text readability.

Business Profile

This is a local SEO plugin to bring you search traffic from your area and has much of Yoast’s functionality.

Security and data management plugins

WordFence

Extend protection beyond passwords with an in-depth flaw scanner that blocks any malware and permanently monitors your site from multiple angles. This top security solution acts as a firewall, also securing login information, providing a comprehensive block feature, scanning and monitoring your website for any threats.

WP-Optimize

The WordPress CMS at some point gets loaded with unnecessary data. Whether it’s about comments you did not approve, spam messages, bad content and other kinds of “trash”, WP-Optimize will clean it all for you, automatically. Why is this important? Because trash data weighs down your site and makes it harder to manage, your database needs to retain only that which is useful and relevant. Save precious time by having it cleaned automatically instead of manually.

iThemes Security

This is a free plugin for new and seasoned users alike. Install it with one click and start using its abundance of advanced features. It will fix any vulnerability, enable secure passwords, prevent attacks and maintain your site accordingly.

Block Bad Queries

BBQ is the fastest security solution for novice users. Simply install and activate it – no configuration required; it will prevent any malware intrusions on your website.

BruteProtect

It prevents bots from logging in and attacking your site, stopping automated scripts (so far, it has blocked almost 300 million attacks).

UpDraftPlus

This backup solution keeps all data safe, so you don’t have to restart from level zero in case anything happens. It can work with Google Drive and Cloud Storage among many others and includes full website backups, also on e-mail.

Useful marketing tools

MailChimp Forms WD

MailChimp WD allows you to integrate all the MailChimp functionality to your WordPress site and caters to all your e-mailing needs. It allows you to manage your lists, forms, subscribers, and observe the results of your e-mail marketing campaigns. It will also provide you with well designed, attractive forms where you can add custom fields, such as PayPal, file upload, checkboxes, custom select and many more. Moreover, it comes with a conditional fields functionality which allows you to hide/display form fields based on the specific selections your visitors make.

Optin Forms

Besides installing visible opt-in boxes in every post you make, this user-friendly plugin also works in conjunction with plenty of e-mail marketing solutions, enabling numerous customization options.

Google Analytics WD

View reports, manage your goals, set custom reports, filter out unnecessary data and keep the track of your site performance with Google Analytics WD. The plugin gives you comprehensive reports on all aspects of your website and lets you compare reports of two periods. It gives you reports on your AdSense and AdWords accounts, as well as eCommerce sales stats. The reports are responsive and are possible to export to PDF and CSV formats. The plugin comes with advanced alerts and supports Pushover notifications.

Themify Announcement Bar

Good Reviews for WordPress

Add existing positive reviews of your business to your WP site and “clothe” this section in a beautiful design. Create a testimonials area that’s totally attractive. Furthermore, it lets you add reviews to separate products or posts, complete with photos and links for added credibility.

Front-end editors

Beaver Builder

Build up every page of your WordPress site with drag-and-drop technology. Use its advanced features for outstanding customization. Select one of its many premade templates.

Page Builder

Import, design your own and export layouts, install all the needed widgets and customize your pages as desired, in a few easy gestures – nothing complicated. If you created a good post design and wanted to perpetuate it, simply proceed to clone it.

Custom Field Suite

It builds original themes of high complexity using custom metadata, being far more stable than the previously popular Advanced Custom Fields.

WooCommerce

Design and run a web store on WordPress with a revolutionary plugin that makes it truly competitive. All the required functions are included.

Typekit Fonts

Replace standard fonts with beautiful ones to personalize and brand your WordPress site like a pro, without editing its layout.

Editus

Avoid the complicated WP admin panel and create your posts in a simplified environment with loads of powerful features packed in this front-end editor.

Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery is a feature-rich and responsive tool which allows you to create beautiful albums and galleries on your website. The plugin comes with multiple views, such as Thumbnails,Masonry ,Mosaic,Slideshow, Image Browser and more.It also features multiple widgets, and has an advanced lightbox showing images in slideshow with transition effects. The plugin is fully customizable and has a great eCommerce add-on which lets you sell digital prints. You can create your online store straightaway and manage the store with advanced and functional options.

Other plugins

CleanTalk

Better than Akismet? Yes! CleanTalk removes spam much more efficiently than Akismet.

Safe Redirect Manager

Recommended for small business sites and frequently read blogs, this will provide an easy solution to an otherwise laborious, time consuming and repetitive task.

CoSchedule

Use this top editorial calendar plugin to manage posts and multiple authors, tracking all tasks and promoting your content, too.

Restrict Content

This plugin makes membership sites uncomplicated. Make special content visible to members only, while restricting access to everyone else.

Admin Columns

Manage content the easy way be replacing the annoying original WordPress admin interface with something cleaner and more intuitive. Remove the clutter and make editing fast and simple.

Keeping up with the WordPress plugin evolution is a prerequisite for online business growth. It can be of tremendous help when you don’t have enough content management and optimization knowledge and can’t afford to hire specialists for every task. With this comprehensive list, you can extend your WordPress site functionality by using plugins that won’t let you down and won’t need to be changed too soon because they’re no longer relevant. Cater to your WordPress website security, backup, design, traffic, and exposure and marketing needs using these top scoring plugins for 2017.

Anil Parmar is the co-founder at GloryWebs -an active web development agency that has helped thousands of businesses across the globe on all things WordPress, web design and digital marketing. Hit him up on Twitter @abparmar99 to chat on any of these topics.

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Anil Parmar is the co-founder at GloryWebs -an active web development agency that has helped thousands of businesses across the globe on all things Wordpress, web design and digital marketing. Hit him up on Twitter @abparmar99 to chat on any of these topics.

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